Authoritarian Personality For Obedience AO1

• Authoritarian personality


  Collection of traits developed from Strict Parenting
• Traits of authoritarian personality

  • Conformist
  • Conventional
  • Dogmatic
  • Big respect for authority
  • Obedient towards perceived higher status
  • Harsh/hostile towards those of a perceived lower status
• Frustrations in childhood couldn't be directed towards parents (perceived higher status)


  Taken out on those with a perceived lower status
• Dispositional explanation


  Assuming obedient behaviour is due to internal traits such as personality, rather than external (situational) factors
• Adorno (1950)


  • Measured the authoritarian personality using the F-scale
  • Found those high on the scale showed extreme respect and obedience to those of a 'higher status', and showed prejudice, stereotypes and contempt towards the weak
• The study was tested on 2000 mainly white Americans
• If 18 people would talk, less and work as more, everybody would be better off